Fisk: The word that's all the rage at Dictionary.com

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.

A still from the video that led to online education.

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The internet has given the world an opportunity to instantly educate itself.

August organizations such as Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com have cemented their website and Twitter presences and are there to help people learn new words. And to put words that emerge from web life into their dictionaries.

The clip featured somewhat rightist personality Dana Loesch promising, among other things, that she and the NRA would fisk The New York Times.

It took awhile to determine whether the word was fisk at all. Many heard a T rather than a K at the end. This was an understandable mishearing, as the hashtag that accompanied the NRA video was #ClenchedFistForTruth.

Oddly, Loesch's use of the word isn't actually Dictionary.com's first definition. That would be a reference to James Fisk, a 19th century American stock speculator, aka robber baron, sometimes referred to as "Diamond Jim."

Loesch's use was, according to Dictionary.com, slang, meaning "to refute or criticize (a journalistic article or blog) point by point."

The NRA video was itself subjected to some criticism. Here's a sample, offered by commenter John Spartan: "I used to be a member of the NRA and shoot at the range in Fairfax. No more. You guys make normal gun owners look nuts with this rhetoric."